Quotes from Miuccia Prada

I try to make women feel more powerful without losing their femininity.

Men are always much more dignified than most women.

Women have the stress of being beautiful, of age and youth. Men don't have all that. And with women, that stress causes a lot of mistakes and bad choices - a lot of not being their true self.

I'm not interested in how people dress.

Everybody knows that I don't have a muse. I'm not interested in that.

I once tried to make lace - which has been a great obsession of women - unsexy. And I achieved it.

What interests me most is when a work of art is no longer just an object, but also touches reality and life.

You have to always work against what you did before, and even against your taste.

My learning process is by eye alone it's not at all scientific.

I respect my work. But also I think it's very superficial.

I am in a key moment. I kind of understand that I have to use my work more completely without being ashamed.

For me, art is about learning and about living with people. It's alive.

The content could be done anyplace, but the real invention is the architecture. The architecture is the only work that really defines a new way of doing things. I think this point is fundamental.

Nostalgia is a very complicated subject for me. I'm attracted by nostalgia but I refuse it intellectually.

What people sometimes interpret as quirky is my attempt to subvert the concept of luxury by introducing elements that are considered ordinary or commonplace.

Ugly is attractive, ugly is exciting. Maybe because it is newer. The investigation of ugliness is, to me, more interesting than the bourgeois idea of beauty. And why? Because ugly is human.

I always loved aesthetics. Not particularly fashion, but an idea of beauty.

I don't like things that are obvious and so I always try to introduce something that is wrong, something that is different. Just beauty by itself is too easy.

Girls throw away so much energy in this search for beauty and sexiness.

What you wear represents you to the world, especially now, when communication between people is so fast. Fashion is a universal language that everyone understands.

Before I had kids, I was out every night of the week.

You need to have dignity towards how you are, how you dress, how you behave. Very important.

We will always buy clothes because they let us live our dreams.

Craziness in a shoe is great - you can have much more freedom, you can exaggerate and it doesn't feel stupid. But to have too much craziness near your face, that would just feel weird.